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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Barbara Bush

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
BARBARA BUSH

Courageous Office Running
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Love Marriage
The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Reading Teacher
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
BARBARA BUSH

Home Veterans Day Work
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Helping Overseas Someone Trying
I’m tired now of the elections.
BARBARA BUSH

Election Tired
Life has changed enormously, and I hope – I hope more people read good things.
BARBARA BUSH

Changed Good People Things
I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
BARBARA BUSH

Dirty Hate Naughty
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
BARBARA BUSH

People Worry Writing
Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
BARBARA BUSH

Country Nancy People Perfectionist
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
BARBARA BUSH

Family Friendship Inspirational
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
BARBARA BUSH

Controversial Cost Government
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
BARBARA BUSH

Children Likes Losing
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
BARBARA BUSH

Half Mother President
My worst expectations never happened.
BARBARA BUSH

Expectations Happened Worst
Your success as a family… our success as a nation… depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
BARBARA BUSH

Family House White

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